Alex Little

I’ve just got my new laptop so am getting all the bits and bobs installed on here that I’ll need for the OCI work. I’m going through the process of installing Apache, MySQL, PHP etc (I’d prefer to do this myself than to use one of the all-in-one installers, just so I know how it all really works!). nearly there with it now, just a couple of things I noticed on various forums etc about getting PHP5 to work with Apache 2.2, a fair few forum postings mention downloading php5apache2_2.dll to use instead of php5apache2.dll. I found that I didn’t need to do this, and instead of adding a LoadModule command to the Apache httpd.conf file, I just added this at the end instead:

ScriptAlias /php/ “c:/PHP/”

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php5

Action application/x-httpd-php “/php/php-cgi.exe”

SetEnv PHPRC “C:/php”

I then also needed to update the directory security section in the httpd.conf file too, to allow Apache access to the PHP directory.

For info, this was the best tutorial I found for getting all this set up – although it’s for MySQL 4.1, it still holds for MySQL 5.